UPDATE: 120,000 still without power in southern Missouri

ST. LOUIS — Nearly 120,000 homes and businesses in Missouri are still without power and many could remain in the dark for days to come.

A two-day winter storm dumped snow, sleet and ice over much of the state, but an area south of Interstate 44 and the Bootheel region were hardest hit. Six deaths were blamed on the weather — five in accidents on slick roads and one case of hypothermia.